Dick Francis is back on track

Longtime fans of mystery giant Dick Francis may be surprised, but also pleased, to know that, after a six-year publishing hiatus and at the ripe old age of 86 the master has returned with a new novel. Under Orders finds Francis in solid, if unspectacular, form, as his popular hero, 38-year-old jockey-turned-detective Sid Halley, prosthetic left hand and all, is once again mired in murderous...